Sofie Coppola on fame, infamy and robbing the rich in The Bling RingSofia Coppola dicusses her take on a notorious tale of celebrity obsession in The Bling RingFri Jul 05 2013 - 00:00
No more pagans or goat-slaughtering, the rock festival has become oh so sedateGlastonbury now carries about as much menace as the Henley RegattaSun Jun 30 2013 - 06:00
Apocalypse box-office kapow!The surprise success of World War Z offers Hollywood lessonsFri Jun 28 2013 - 00:00
Zal Batmanglij goes anarchist with his eco-thriller The EastFilm-maker Zal Batmangli and writer/actor Brit Marling lived 'off the grid' to make their eco-rebel thriller, The East. Batmangli, whose brother Rostam plays keyboards in Vampire Weekend, talks to Donald ClarkeFri Jun 28 2013 - 00:00
Hoodie horror that hits homeRather than kitchen-sink dramas, Ciaran Foy’s student shorts marked his work out as different, and his debut horror feature is rooted in personal traumaSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:00
The don is dead, long live the donHad James Gandolfini lived longer, Tony Soprano would have been just one of his many other memorable character roles – as it is, the don of them all is enoughThu Jun 20 2013 - 17:16
Who ever decided that James Joyce was ‘fun’?Difficulty in literature has its own joys and pleasuresSun Jun 16 2013 - 00:01
Lily Collins: The genesis of a movie starShe’ll never fully escape the ‘daughter of Phil’ tag, but actor Lily Collins has always been determined to achieve success on her own termsFri Jun 14 2013 - 00:00
Television culture accepted gay performers by denying the fact that they were gayOpinion: Viewers persuaded themselves that camp behaviour was ‘just an act’Sun Jun 09 2013 - 06:00
Austrian BluesWhy are Austrian films so relentlessly pessimistic? Ulrich Seidl, director of a grim new trilogy, assures Donald Clarke that it’s a legacy of the country’s past – and argues that while the truth may be miserable, facing it can lead to changeFri Jun 07 2013 - 00:00
No easy way to stub out hypocrisy over cannabisColumn: No politician ever lost his seat because he was too hard on drugsSat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
Neil Jordan: crossing the boundaries of the creative worldThere is no easy way to categorise Neil Jordan or his work. He discusses writing, directing, tackling national monuments and battling the studio systemFri May 31 2013 - 01:00
Michael Douglas on playing Liberace - the man behind the candelabraHis turn as Liberace in Steven Soderbergh’s biopic has the critics raving. Michael Douglas talks about his portrayal of the camp piano man, his own brush with cancer and Hollywood’s continuing problem with gay rolesFri May 31 2013 - 00:00
Cannes Palme d’Or goes to controversial film ‘Blue is the Warmest Colour’Grand Prix goes to Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’Mon May 27 2013 - 01:00
Cheer up, you’re in CannesThis year’s films have a lot of things going for them, but a cheery view of humanity is not one of them. Just look at Only God Forgives, A Touch of Sin, Inside Llewyn Davis . . .Sat May 25 2013 - 01:00
Cannes Film Festival: Behind the CandelabraIt might have been made for TV, but this biopic of Liberace makes for excellent Cannes entertainmentTue May 21 2013 - 19:00
Cannes Film Festival: The Great Beauty/La Grande BellezzaPaolo Sorrentino’s latest may well prove to be his masterpieceTue May 21 2013 - 19:00
The Irish Martians launching a surprise Cannes invasionCannes has seen many sights, but few rarer than an Irish sci-fi film that is set on the red planetTue May 21 2013 - 02:00
Coens deliver humorous and deeply felt movie with ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’Review: The Coen brothers’ latest film is perfectly pitched between nostalgic longing for a much-lauded era and gentle, sly cynicismMon May 20 2013 - 01:00
Shots fired near Cannes festival jury membersMan arrested after discharging starting pistol on seafrontSat May 18 2013 - 08:25
Cannes streets buzz with grown-up news story after jewel theftFrench film festival shows no signs of being Cannes’dSat May 18 2013 - 02:00
Cannes Festival 2013 : The PastFarhadi has firmly established himself as a kinder Ingmar BergmanSat May 18 2013 - 01:00
DiCaprio and Luhrmann on Gatsby: ‘The novel both celebrates and is an indictment of the American dream’Great Scott! Luhrmann’s latest labour of love has arrived.Fri May 17 2013 - 01:00
Gatsby’s last-gasp review blackoutEmargoes on critics are increasingly irrelevant, but newspapers will miss themFri May 17 2013 - 01:00
Cannes Festival 2013: All that glitters . . .Sofia Coppola’s new film shows the director still has style – but what substance?Thu May 16 2013 - 19:00
Cannes Festival 2013: Down Mexico wayThis potential prizewinner is replete with cruelties of varying huesThu May 16 2013 - 19:00
Cannes opener: not-so-great ‘Gatsby’ kicks off 66th festivalBaz Luhrmann’s blend of bombast and camp spectacle not well-suited to an adaptation of the American classicThu May 16 2013 - 01:00
Cannes 2013: all cinematic life is hereFrom its all-star cast and super-yacht backdrops, to the grit and grime of its underground market, Cannes is still the world’s most important film festivalWed May 15 2013 - 02:00
The kids are all right. It’s the parents who need to gain some perspectiveColumn: Complaint of pornography about Anne Frank’s Diary a silly businessSat May 11 2013 - 02:00
